The local space context of Guilin as this registry holds it — the catalogued human footprint on the ground around it, the orbits that can pass overhead, and the geostationary belt seen from here.
| position | 25.280° N, 110.296° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,572,300 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 475 km E (82°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 478 km SSE (158°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 605 km S (173°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 634 km S (174°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 635 km S (174°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 651 km S (191°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 779 km WSW (258°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 790 km ENE (57°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 808/402 Brigade Missile Base, Chuxiong, Yunnan province | 882 km W (270°) | 25.062° N, 101.532° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 884 km WNW (294°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 948 km ENE (76°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 634 km S (174°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | launchlibrary |
Distances are great-circle on a sphere of mean radius 6,371 km; bearings are initial true bearings from the city. Each position is the source catalogue's own, read back from the registry.
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit on 2026-10-18, 20,563 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 25.280° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,688 never reach this latitude.
| space station | inclination | can pass overhead |
|---|---|---|
| Bai Xiang | 85.0° | yes |
| International Space Station (+3 docked records) | 51.6° | yes |
| Kosmos-382 | 55.9° | yes |
| Tianhe | 41.5° | yes |
Computed: an orbit's equatorial inclination bounds the latitudes its track reaches (inclination i, or 180° − i when retrograde), from the orbital elements the registry holds. «Can pass overhead» is geometry, not a schedule — when, and whether it is lit and visible, depends on the hour.
The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands 60.4° above the horizon due south — the elevation to aim at for a satellite at this city's own longitude. Computed: spherical Earth (equatorial radius 6,378.137 km), circular orbit of one sidereal day (42,164 km); good to a few tenths of a degree.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
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